Rachel Cooke

Rachel Cooke is a writer at the Observer. In the 2006 British Press Awards, she was named Interviewer of the Year.

Anthony Horowitz’s Moonflower Murders is a delicious buffet of detective-story Englishness

Blood stains, Battenberg cakes and a brilliant older woman – what a treat this series is.

By Rachel Cooke

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This film from Hope Not Hate – pulled from the London Film Festival on safety grounds – has a…

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Richard E Grant is glorious in this Rolls-Royce production from Armando Iannucci and Sam Mendes.

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This Disney+ take on Jilly Cooper’s Rutshire Chronicles is very funny and deeply satisfying. And what a multiplicity of…

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This Apple TV series starring Cate Blanchett is despair-inducing tripe.

By Rachel Cooke

Sophie Turner shines in this TV biopic of an Eighties jewellery thief.

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Yariv Mozer’s 90-minute BBC documentary is an astonishing thing, almost beyond description. It will destroy you.

By Rachel Cooke

Annette Bening and Sam Neill star in an American tennis soap that misses every shot.

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In Scoop vs Scandal, this is the clear winner. But is that the sound of TV eating itself?

By Rachel Cooke